spread-eagle — 英語辞典

形容詞

1. Lying with arms and legs outstretched and separated.

2. Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; bombastic.

   用法

   • 米国での用法
   • 古風

   例文

   その他の例文 (1)

   Our former townsman, Mr. G. F. Train, has recently made a tremendous spread-eagle speech in England, upon the occasion of the reopening of trade between Liverpool and New Zealand […]

   But Mr. Lloyd is not a spread-eagle patriot, or much given to political partisanship.

   The firm did a large and lucrative business from the start, the orders from spread-eagle orators often taxing the full capacity of its works.

動詞

1. To put into a spread-eagle position, with arms and legs extended and spread.

   用法

   • 他動詞

2. To put one's body in a spread eagle.

   用法

   • 自動詞

形容詞

1. with arms and legs stretched out and apart

   例文

   lay spread-eagle on the floor

動詞

1. stretch out completely

   上位語

   stretchextend

   例文

   They spread-eagled him across the floor

2. stretch over

   上位語

   rangestraddle

   例文

   His residences spread-eagle the entire county

3. execute a spread eagle on skates, with arms and legs stretched out

   上位語

   figure skate

4. stand with arms and legs spread out

   上位語

   sprawl

5. defeat disastrously

   同義語

   spreadeaglerout

   上位語

   beatbeat outcrushshelltrouncevanquish